Diversity is a hot topic these days, it seems like everywhere you look issues of race, culture and equality are popping up. Yet the numbers tell a different story. In corporate America, most offices are populated by white males with very little resources allocated to hiring people of color or women. Harvard Business Review reports that diverse hiring practices have only increased less than 5% in the last 20 years.

Last week we started talking about diversity, and the importance of diversity in the hiring process. We are all individuals with different personalities, and those personality traits start to show when we’re put in teams and forced to work together. Certain people emerge as leaders, other focus on analyzing, and so on and so on.

To expand on this topic of diversity, we’re now going to talk about cultural diversity in the workplace.

Diversity, is simply defined as, "a range of different things." In the workplace, however, diversity describes our culture, our skills, and our roles. Imagine if there are three different types of people in this world. We’ll call these people, X’s, Y’s, and Z’s.